Lead in the regular due diligence on infrastructure and systems capacity and performance, and recommend mitigations to address rising concerns

Perform production escalation support and provide aftermath root cause analysis.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Strong leadership and communication skills

Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience

8+ years of relevant experience

Extensive experience with Linux/Unix internals

Highly competent with LAMP

Deep understanding of various caching technologies

Expert level in networking technologies

Strong experience with High-Performance, scalable web architectures

Experience with Network and Systems security

Competent developer in Php, Python and C

Good knowledge of various server and storage architectures

Any other free/open software development experience highly welcome

Comfortable in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment

Experience with wikis and participatory production environments a plus

Understanding of the free culture movement a plus

The ideal candidate will be creative, highly motivated, and able to operate effectively in multiple cultural and language contexts.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation got its start in 2003 and is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia. Based in San Francisco, California, we currently employ over 150 staff and contractors globally. The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to creating a world in which every single human being can freely and easily share in the sum of all knowledge. Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive nearly 500 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most popular web property worldwide. Wikipedia is available in more than 280 languages, containing more than 47 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of over 100,000 people. In an effort to continue our mission, we are hiring talented and creative individuals to join the team.